What causes some relationships to fail while others flourish? Deondriea Cantrice has done her homework and she knows the answer. She hits the dating nail on the head with her down-to-earth writing style as she attempts to teach and inspire her readers. Using a fictitious love story as the backdrop, she demonstrates what works and what doesn't when it comes to answering the age-old question: What is the most important thing in an intimate relationship?

The urban setting deals with characters who love to party in the bar scene, struggle to keep friendship in the workplace, and manage to hold down the fort in single-parent homes. She explores the virtues of friendship on a deep level where honesty, trust, and having great sex matters! Deondriea is not shy about physical pleasure. She leaves the bedroom door wide open while Sheridyn and Sterling enjoy steamy love scenes.

The author's use of colloquialism may help her target audience of young African-American women relate as it puts the story into a situation where it can offer the change that most nonfiction books attempt to bring forth. It was a unique experience for me as a Caucasian woman to look in on the lifestyle of the brothas and sistas and better understand a culture with which I was not familiar.

Ms. Cantrice's characters are real personalities we can all relate to. Most of us have had a Sabrina--someone to whom we wish we'd never said, "Look me up when you're in town." They're the kind you can't take in public without them making a scene and embarrassing everyone with them. Funny thing is they don't even know when they have stuck their own foot in their mouths. And, we probably know a few jealous people like Jessica. These "friends" rarely realize it is their own foolish behavior that is actually driving away the person they would like to catch and spend time with. No, she's too busy judging or criticizing to notice her own flaws or realize that she is not being true to herself.

The author's overall point is that in order to have a relationship with someone else and find Mr. Right, you have to have a healthy relationship with yourself and know what you are looking for in a partner. To be happy, you need to know what makes you happy, and then seek the person who has the character traits, attitudes, values, and goals you desire and above all who knows how to be a true friend. Otherwise, you can't keep time and dance well together no matter how good the music may be.